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Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study
BACKGROUND: The Health Avatar Platform provides a mobile health environment with interconnected patient Avatars, physician apps, and intelligent agents (termed IoA(3)) for data privacy and participatory medicine; however, its fully decentralized architecture has come at the expense of decentralized...
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JMIR Publications
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8218219/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34096877 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26230 |
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author | Kim, Hyeong-Joon Kim, Hye Hyeon Ku, Hosuk Yoo, Kyung Don Lee, Suehyun Park, Ji In Kim, Hyo Jin Kim, Kyeongmin Chung, Moon Kyung Lee, Kye Hwa Kim, Ju Han |
author_facet | Kim, Hyeong-Joon Kim, Hye Hyeon Ku, Hosuk Yoo, Kyung Don Lee, Suehyun Park, Ji In Kim, Hyo Jin Kim, Kyeongmin Chung, Moon Kyung Lee, Kye Hwa Kim, Ju Han |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Health Avatar Platform provides a mobile health environment with interconnected patient Avatars, physician apps, and intelligent agents (termed IoA(3)) for data privacy and participatory medicine; however, its fully decentralized architecture has come at the expense of decentralized data management and data provenance. OBJECTIVE: The introduction of blockchain and smart contract technologies to the legacy Health Avatar Platform with a clinical metadata registry remarkably strengthens decentralized health data integrity and immutable transaction traceability at the corresponding data-element level in a privacy-preserving fashion. A crypto-economy ecosystem was built to facilitate secure and traceable exchanges of sensitive health data. METHODS: The Health Avatar Platform decentralizes patient data in appropriate locations (ie, on patients’ smartphones and on physicians’ smart devices). We implemented an Ethereum-based hash chain for all transactions and smart contract–based processes to guarantee decentralized data integrity and to generate block data containing transaction metadata on-chain. Parameters of all types of data communications were enumerated and incorporated into 3 smart contracts, in this case, a health data transaction manager, a transaction status manager, and an application programming interface transaction manager. The actual decentralized health data are managed in an off-chain manner on appropriate smart devices and authenticated by hashed metadata on-chain. RESULTS: Metadata of each data transaction are captured in a Health Avatar Platform blockchain node by the smart contracts. We provide workflow diagrams each of the 3 use cases of data push (from a physician app or an intelligent agents to a patient Avatar), data pull (request to a patient Avatar by other entities), and data backup transactions. Each transaction can be finely managed at the corresponding data-element level rather than at the resource or document levels. Hash-chained metadata support data element–level verification of data integrity in subsequent transactions. Smart contracts can incentivize transactions for data sharing and intelligent digital health care services. CONCLUSIONS: Health Avatar Platform and interconnected patient Avatars, physician apps, and intelligent agents provide a decentralized blockchain ecosystem for health data that enables trusted and finely tuned data sharing and facilitates health value-creating transactions with smart contracts. |
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spelling | pubmed-82182192021-07-02 Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study Kim, Hyeong-Joon Kim, Hye Hyeon Ku, Hosuk Yoo, Kyung Don Lee, Suehyun Park, Ji In Kim, Hyo Jin Kim, Kyeongmin Chung, Moon Kyung Lee, Kye Hwa Kim, Ju Han JMIR Med Inform Original Paper BACKGROUND: The Health Avatar Platform provides a mobile health environment with interconnected patient Avatars, physician apps, and intelligent agents (termed IoA(3)) for data privacy and participatory medicine; however, its fully decentralized architecture has come at the expense of decentralized data management and data provenance. OBJECTIVE: The introduction of blockchain and smart contract technologies to the legacy Health Avatar Platform with a clinical metadata registry remarkably strengthens decentralized health data integrity and immutable transaction traceability at the corresponding data-element level in a privacy-preserving fashion. A crypto-economy ecosystem was built to facilitate secure and traceable exchanges of sensitive health data. METHODS: The Health Avatar Platform decentralizes patient data in appropriate locations (ie, on patients’ smartphones and on physicians’ smart devices). We implemented an Ethereum-based hash chain for all transactions and smart contract–based processes to guarantee decentralized data integrity and to generate block data containing transaction metadata on-chain. Parameters of all types of data communications were enumerated and incorporated into 3 smart contracts, in this case, a health data transaction manager, a transaction status manager, and an application programming interface transaction manager. The actual decentralized health data are managed in an off-chain manner on appropriate smart devices and authenticated by hashed metadata on-chain. RESULTS: Metadata of each data transaction are captured in a Health Avatar Platform blockchain node by the smart contracts. We provide workflow diagrams each of the 3 use cases of data push (from a physician app or an intelligent agents to a patient Avatar), data pull (request to a patient Avatar by other entities), and data backup transactions. Each transaction can be finely managed at the corresponding data-element level rather than at the resource or document levels. Hash-chained metadata support data element–level verification of data integrity in subsequent transactions. Smart contracts can incentivize transactions for data sharing and intelligent digital health care services. CONCLUSIONS: Health Avatar Platform and interconnected patient Avatars, physician apps, and intelligent agents provide a decentralized blockchain ecosystem for health data that enables trusted and finely tuned data sharing and facilitates health value-creating transactions with smart contracts. JMIR Publications 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8218219/ /pubmed/34096877 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26230 Text en ©Hyeong-Joon Kim, Hye Hyeon Kim, Hosuk Ku, Kyung Don Yoo, Suehyun Lee, Ji In Park, Hyo Jin Kim, Kyeongmin Kim, Moon Kyung Chung, Kye Hwa Lee, Ju Han Kim. Originally published in JMIR Medical Informatics (https://medinform.jmir.org), 07.06.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Informatics, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://medinform.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Kim, Hyeong-Joon Kim, Hye Hyeon Ku, Hosuk Yoo, Kyung Don Lee, Suehyun Park, Ji In Kim, Hyo Jin Kim, Kyeongmin Chung, Moon Kyung Lee, Kye Hwa Kim, Ju Han Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study |
title | Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study |
title_full | Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study |
title_fullStr | Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study |
title_short | Smart Decentralization of Personal Health Records with Physician Apps and Helper Agents on Blockchain: Platform Design and Implementation Study |
title_sort | smart decentralization of personal health records with physician apps and helper agents on blockchain: platform design and implementation study |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8218219/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34096877 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26230 |
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